Uncut Magazine - Jan 2006 Issue = The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

and a John Peel CD !

[Matos, doesn't link to my blog on his blog, so he probably doesn't know that.]

Wouldn't that be cool?

It's more like Soap Opera Digest putting Susan Lucci on the cover every fifth issue.

you need to pick up last month's Reader's Digest

Alert the media.

This deserves a photo, but I can't think of what.

http://www.lestercat.net/dev/HTML/images/steamroller_02.jpg

ha "Imagine Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand and Babyshambles rolled into one"

Mr Uncut Copywriter remember who you are writing for - is NOT the same as when you write for NME/NME.com

oh dear, they must have drafted in someone like Mark Beaumont [from NME] to come up with grade A rubbish such as that.

...but their career lasted more than three weeks!

Half Man Half Biscuit: Trumpton Riots
Camper Van Beethoven: Take The Skinheads Bowling
Spizzenergi: Where's Captain Kirk?
Mighty Wah!: Remember
Sugar Cubes: Birthday
Woodentops: Well Well Well
Billy Bragg: Saturday Boy
Field Mice: Sensitive
Bhundu Boys: Foolish Harp / Waerera
Pavement: Gold Soundz
Felt: Primitive Painters
House Of Love: Destroy The Heart
Wedding Present: Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
Robert Wyatt: Shipbuilding
Fall: Eat Y'self Fitter

i have 7 copies of Sensitive (and counting)...

- johnny marr wrote some music
- mozzer wrote some words
- johnny and moz put it all together
- they rang up those freeloading morons
- they went into the studio
- they recorded it
- moz made a sleeve
- the record company did some shit
- it was released

THERE SO NOW YOU HIPSTER MORONS DONT HAVE TO BUY UNCUT TO KNOW NOW YOU KNOW

http://foreverill.com/interviews/post87/trouble.htm

John Harris's MOJO cover story/look-back article on
The Queen is Dead from 2001. *Bloody* brilliant it is.

I'd be staggered if UNCUT's tells me anything new but i'm buying it anyway.

Spizzenergi (overplayed)

Spizzenergi (overplayed)

Spizzenergi (overplayed)

Spizzenergi (overplayed)

Spizzenergi (overplayed)

Spizzenergi (overplayed)

Spizzenergi (overplayed)

Spizzenergi (overplayed)

Woodentops: Well Well Well

And just to prove he wasn't averse to discovering artists that went on to sell big, I'd have liked PJ Harvey 'Dress' on there.

The Woodentops debut album, 'Giant', is terrific too, DJM.

I've never heard of them.

The college market (to cover all "alternative acts" with a large umbrella) is comparitively tiny in the US isn't it? At least that's what I believed, and have to remind myself of every now & then, particularly when wondering why Pitchfork/Stylus/ILM etcetera take any notice whatsoever of us crazy Brits.

This is why we have declared a War On Terror. And add Spizznenexpealidocious to the list.

i did, and for some reason the last Suede album drifted through my mind

This deserves a photo, but I can't think of what.

I can!

http://www.nfi.org.za/coleoptera/Scan96.jpg

oh DARN

the magazine says as much in the associated article, how he was always annoyed by the lack of mix. (the two things that aren't white boys with guitars are the best things on there - that bhundu boys track is particularly great)

Of course, the best one is the 141 record box...

I love Spizz. I didn't go to any mid-80s indie discos though so it's not overexposed for me.

The noise/hardcore/gabba/etc side of Peel is always ignored in favour of the more MOR indie stuff on these compilations. They could at least have stuck "You Suffer" by Napalm Death on it, it's not like there'd be a problem with space constraints.

Didn't To Bring You My Love sell this many alone?

Start with 1989 Petrol, Spizz Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History 6000 Crazy Petrol, Spizz Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History Airships Rob Mounsey Do a Runner Amnesia Jim Solar, Spizz Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History Brainwashing Time Spikey Dream Flowers Central Park Spikey Dream Flowers Clocks Are Big Do a Runner Cold City Petrol, Spizz Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History Dangers of Living Spikey Dream Flowers Downtown Spikey Dream Flowers Effortless Mark Coalfield Do a Runner Energy Crisis Do a Runner European Heroes Do a Runner Five Year Mission Spikey Dream Flowers Hot Deserts Mark Coalfield... Where's Captain Kirk: The Very Best of Spizz Composed by: Mark Coalfield, Spizz Intimate Do a Runner Composed by: Mark Coalfiel, Spizz Jungle Fever Spizz ... Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History Composed by: Spizz, George White Living Is Better With Freedom Spizz Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History Mega City 3 Spizz Spizz Not Dead: 1978-8 Decade of Spizz History Melancholy Spikey Dream Flowers New Species Do a Runner No Room Mark Coalfield Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History On My Own Spizz Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History Personimpersonator Do a Runner Platform 3 Petrol, Spizz Spizz NoDead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History Pure Noise/Alien Language/P.F.H. Spizz Spizz No Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History Red & Black Spizz Spizz No Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History Red and Balck Do a Runner Rhythm Inside Mark Coalfield Do a Runner Risk Spikey Dream Flowers Robot Holiday Spikey Dream Flowers Scared Spikey Dream Flowers Solarisation (Shun) Spizz Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History Soldier, Soldier Spikey Dream Flowers Spock's Missing Spizz Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History The Meaning Spizz ... Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History Composed by: Spizz, George White The Model Karl Bartos ... Where's Captain Kirk: The Very Best of Spizz Composed by: Karl Bartos, Ralf Hütter The Sun Never Sets on Aston Villa Broughton ... Where's Captain Kirk: The Very Best of Spizz Composed by: Broughton, Kinder, Spizz Three Lions in the Sky (Theme for Euro '96) Hooper, Spizz Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History Touched Do a Runner Virginia Plain Bryan Ferry Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History Where's Captain Kirk? Mark Coalfield ... Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History Composed by: Mark Coalfield, Spizz Work Jim Solar, Spizz Spizz Not Dead: 1978-88 Decade of Spizz History

and then work from there.

More Spizz info at

www.spizzcom.co.uk/com3/
www.spizzenergi.com/
www.spizz.org/
www.damagedgoods.co.uk/spizzenergi/
www.cherryred.co.uk/cherryred/artists/spizzenergi.htm

Don't forget Spizz profile on Music6 tonight available throughout week on BBC site.

METACRITIC RATING FOR: Spizz

STYLUS REVIEWS: Spizzthology

GILLES PETERSON WEIGHS IN ON: Spizz from Brownswood

POST-PUNK DIARY ENTRY FOR: Spizz

TROUSER PRESS ENTRY FOR: Spizzenergi

She's sold nearly 1.3 million from these figures from July so you can probably add another few thousand to them.

4/Track Demos / 119,000
Rid of Me / 204,000
To Bring You My Love / 369,000
Is this Desire? / 163,000
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea / 282,000
Uh Huh Her / 131,000

argh, I forgot about her alt-rock hit "Down By the Water", which probably pushed her catalog quite a bit. But I didn't think she'd even broken 100K for "Uh huh."

thanks for the correction.

http://www.arkade.com/artists/SPIZZENERGI/tracks/Happy+Xmas+(War+is+over).aspx

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